Chris Quinn: Yet another reason to love Japan

On the news that Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe resigned and that the man likely to follow him as prime minister, Aso Taro, is a huge manga fan, stocks of anime, video game and manga companies soared Wednesday on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

But it makes me wonder, with Taro at the helm, will the Japanese military begin a shift to a Mech-based defense force? Or at the very least allow more scantily clad women with swords into local police forces?

Either way, at least President George W. Bush will now have somebody to talk comic books with at the G8 meeting.